Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-07

with something better to look forward t.
than the worldly pleasures. Pau
uses the language of the text for th'
purpose of showing how such peaceabl'
future may be obtained. When he mad
the remarks he was correcting abuses II
the Church of Corinth; but they are al
applicable now as then. He was a teacher
who, when he assumed leadership showed
his belief in higher power by submitting
his own understanding to the words Of
Christ, his master. His conduct was
that Of just Judge. who decided to dc
the law, no matter what his own feelings
might be. st. Paul illustrated the greai
principle of obedience, and we should
take him as an example. There are
many, especially the young, who stop to
argue, and draw their own conclusions
regarding the spiritual laws, who think
differently from Christ, as if they had
any right to think at all, when the laws
are laid down for their direction in
spiritual affairs. These people con-
form to the social laws. They
see the benefit of hospitals. pris-
ons and jails, which are evidences
os sin, and consider the laws by which
they are filed to be the only ones by
which they should be guided and on
which they rely for reformation. 1t is
true these laws are necessary tor the
conduct of social life, but they will not
suffice for the mental direction. If they
carry out the laws relating 10
social life, why should not they obey
the laws of the divine life as manifested
in the word of God? Jesus is the only
God we have anything to do with, for
through him we have access to the
Father. That man is crank who ques-
tions the law of Jesus. who reasons on
the subject, who reiudges the councils
of Heaven and disobeys them. Is he
not criminal in the sight of the law OF
Heaven? Does not Jesus say: III ye
love me, keep my commandments
There is no difference in the laws OF
the social and of the spirital worlds ex'
cept in the execution of the penalty.
In one case it follows Immediately by
the punishment of the offender, and in
the other it is withheld until the coming
Of Jesus. 1t is because it does not fol-
low the commission of the crime speedi-
y that men do not obey. Society, in its
egal capacity, can take cognizance
,nly of words and deeds, and
go into the hearts and
minds of mankind, but Col can. If our
thoughts are evil, if we think OF dis
,beying any of Gods laws. if we imagine
;he commission of evil we are as guilty
Is if we had actually broken the Avs.
3od deals with sin in its original con.
,eption in the brain and this man can
lot do. We may think we are commit
ing no crime against the law, but we
ire in the eyes of God. The world OF
hought is as real as the world OF mat
er, in fact more real, for the latter may
bass away but the other never. Our
houghts are recorded in the looks
lbove, never to be obliterated. There
8 but one world, and that is the world
II thought. of which Jesus is the ruler.
md we need not look to heaven to find
lin. He is part Of us and we are
,art of him. This being SO, how can we
Expect to have right judgment until
We submit to the judgment of Jesus. II
We hope to be saved we must keep free
rom evil thoughts until we have en-.
hroned in our hearts the image OF
-esus, and this is what Paul meant
when he spoke the words of the text.